Bug 193969

Summary:	Open tabs so unnecessary for files
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	smartinds
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description smartinds 2009-05-25 01:37:46 UTC

Version:           1.4.2 (using 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3) "release 1", KDE:42 / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27.21-0.1-default

For example, when I open a file .torrent, .zip, etc; Akregator "open a Tab in blank", ¿Why?. It's so unnecessary. The previous version of Akregator (KDE 3.5.x) did not have this disadvantage.

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2009-07-04 13:15:18 UTC

*** Bug 198436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Graeme Hewson 2012-03-28 11:11:51 UTC

I confirm this bug in Akregator 4.7.3. In an RSS article with a download (I subscribe to a number of podcasts), Akregator shows a link to the enclosure. Clicking on this link opens a new, blank, untitled tab and a popup to download, open with Amarok, etc. Afterwards the tab stays, and it's necessary to close it manually. The blank tab (or tabs) even remain if Akregator is stopped and restarted.

This is a regression from Akregator 1.2.9, which didn't open a blank tab when downloading files.

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 04:11:45 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 4 Graeme Hewson 2021-03-10 11:10:16 UTC

The behaviour is much the same in Akregator 5.13.3 with the default settings.

The default Browser setting is Left mouse click = Open in Tab. Perhaps this indicates it's working as designed, but as the OP said this isn't the way it used to work.

I see from my comment in 2012 that the popup had the option to open the enclosure with an application (such as Amarok). Now there's no such option, and all the popup offers to do is download the enclosure. The popup has the title "Save HTML Page -- Akregator".